Nine albums into a hugely successful and widely celebrated career, Lana Del Rey can basically do whatever the hell she wants. And she kinda did on Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd., spewing lyrics spontaneously into her phone rather than labouring long over them as she usually does and encouraging her producers -- Jack Antonoff, Last Shadow Puppets/Mini Mansions bassist Zach Dawes and sometime Angel Olsen and Mitski collaborator Drew Erickson -- to push her trademark film-noir sound in new directions embracing everything from trap to gospel to psych.

The record was a sprawl and baffled some critics and longtime fans -- one writer called it "willfully inscrutable," while another termed it Del Rey's "most obtuse artistic statement to date" -- but it was her fastest-selling record since 2015's Honeymoon and made it to No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart and No. 3 in the U.S. and Canada. Which ain't bad at all for a record that does its best to distance itself from conventional pop music. 

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